I have a supermicro motherboard X8DT6-F which has the SAS2008 on board.
I have a total 9 (1X8Gb) drives connected to which meant that I was using 8, 6Gb/s connections and one my drives was connected using the SATA port which was giving me only 3 Gb/s connection. i Just installed a MegaRAID 9240-4i cross flashed with LSI 9211-8i firmware and I wanted to move the last drive to the 6 Gb/s connection.
My current volume is raid Z and I have one spare drive in it.
My question is as freenas allocates disk identifiers based on which port they are connected to ie /dev/ada1 ( connected to SATA) vs /dev/da1 ( when connected to HBA) I was wondering if I move the drive from SATA and connect it via the 2nd HBA what would it do to my volume.
Can I just take that specific drive offline change the connection and then just bring it back online?
I have a total 9 (1X8Gb) drives connected to which meant that I was using 8, 6Gb/s connections and one my drives was connected using the SATA port which was giving me only 3 Gb/s connection. i Just installed a MegaRAID 9240-4i cross flashed with LSI 9211-8i firmware and I wanted to move the last drive to the 6 Gb/s connection.
My current volume is raid Z and I have one spare drive in it.
My question is as freenas allocates disk identifiers based on which port they are connected to ie /dev/ada1 ( connected to SATA) vs /dev/da1 ( when connected to HBA) I was wondering if I move the drive from SATA and connect it via the 2nd HBA what would it do to my volume.
Can I just take that specific drive offline change the connection and then just bring it back online?